Quotes About Culture

Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life.

When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion

I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.

A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.

Most American men are repressors.

Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.

Nationality was - and is - far less a divide than age... because "everything is global, man!"

The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.

Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.

I think metal draws dumb people. It's not exactly a thinking man's genre.

I think basically most men are misogynistic.

Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness.

The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human.

We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.

Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely.

A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.

Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.

I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.

The Indians are still winning the battle against the white men, but sooner or later, the white guy will win.

The white man in the tropics degenerates every day.

Okay. So, apparently I find burly Indian men attractive. What's wrong with that?

Man, I feel like hip-hop is - first of all, not even only with just GOOD Music, I gotta say - I think hip-hop is still alive in a strong way, man. I feel really enthused about hip-hop.